Urban computational fluid dynamics simulations set-up validations

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for residential areas are becoming increasingly important as the urban population keeps growing and extreme weather conditions due to climate change are becoming more prevalent. Since CFD simulations simulate and visualise fluid flows, users can analyse and predict air flows in urban environments,...

Numerical study on turbulence induced vibrations of fuel rods: Using an Anisotropic Pressure Fluctuations Model

In the evolving landscape of nuclear energy, ensuring the safety and efficiency of nuclear reactors remains paramount, particularly with the increasing demands for energy and a concurrent rise in global temperatures. A significant aspect of nuclear safety involves maintaining the integrity of the fuel rods, which are susceptible to Turbulence...

Personal Air Filter: A purpose-designed air purifier to reduce the spread of airborne transmissive diseases in offices

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of indoor air quality in preventing the spread of airborne transmissive diseases. Offices are some of the largest hotspots for disease transmission. To address this issue, a joint venture between FLEX/design and Euromate, called ‘X-Lair,’ aims to design an air purifier specifically targeting...

Development of a microfluidic system for modelling the heart-kidney interaction in vitro: Design guidelines and proof-of-concept

Cardiorenal Syndrome (CRS) is a multi-organ disease characterized by a reciprocal pathological interaction between the heart and kidneys during acute or chronic injury. Yet, a complete understanding of the underlying bi-directional pathophysiological mechanisms is lacking, hence obscuring effective diagnostic strategies, patient stratification...

Structure-Preserving Hyper-Reduction Methods for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

In this master thesis several novel DEIM formulations are proposed that enable the construction of non-linearly stable hyper-reduced order models (hROMs) of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The hROMs have the same mass, momentum and energy conservation properties as the previously proposed ROM, but they do not suffer of prohibitively...

Numerical modeling of turbulent hydrogen combustion for nuclear safety management

During a severe accident in a water­-cooled nuclear power plant, large quantities of hydrogen can be generated in the reactor core. The hydrogen mixed with air presents a potential risk of combustion when the hydrogen concentration reaches flammability limits. If combustion occurs, pressure loads can damage safety systems and even compromise the...

The wind-induced dynamic load on high-rise structures by the use of CFD

During the last decades, the development of high-rise increased quickly. The Eurocode is frequently used to make wind calculations for high-rise structures. To make those calculations, the dynamic wind load is simplified to a conservative equivalent static load. An alternative to calculate wind loads is a physical wind tunnel test. Wind tunnel...

Minimization of drainage time of filled PET bottle with initial rotation: A numerical study

The drainage time of liquid-filled PET bottles can be greatly reduced by pre-rotating the bottle with a certain angular velocity. Depending on the magnitude of the angular velocity, up to four different flow regimes can be distinguished during the emptying of a bottle: bubble regime, transition regime, vortex<br/>regime and the swirl regime. At...

A Surrogate Model for Vortex Generator Flows

A surrogate model for vortex generator flows has been created. This was done by developing a framework to generate a reduced order approximation of a discrete optimized source-term on a uniform grid. The discrete optimized source term uses the flow field of a vortex generator simulation with a body-fitted mesh (BFM) as objective. The reduced...

Manouevring Prediction of Foil-Assisted Vessels: A Mathematical Model Assisted by CFD

The competitiveness of the maritime sector together with energetic and environmental challenges have promoted a demand for more efficient marine vehicles. In response to this, research campaigns have been conducted, with the aim of developing new technologies. One of these technologies is the application of hydrofoils (e.g.: a Hull Vane) to...

Hydrodynamics below a closed fallpipe system: The profile of a rock berm acquired with rock placement operations

In the offshore industry rock is used for different kind of applications, such as scour protection and pipeline protection. In deep water operations, but also increasingly in shallow water operations, use is made of the method by guiding the rock from the water surface to the seabed with a fallpipe. During a rock placement operation a current...

Research on a Subsea Separation Concept for Deep Sea Mining Purposes

Royal IHC is exploring the possibilities of a subsea separation concept for its deep sea mining concept. The most promising concept from literature was the crossflow separator, this separation concept was further researched. This to have a look at the performance of such a crossflow separator and to find out what geometry is most suitable for...

A Numerical trimvariation study for ships operating in off-design conditions

Fuel efficiency is an important factor for the shipping industry both regarding new build vessels and existing vessels. A method to reduce the fuel consumption of existing vessels operating in off design conditions is to trim a vessel in the most optimum trim condition. The current approach to determine the most efficient trim condition is to...

Windscape: A landscape exhibition shaped by the wind

The Technical University Delft has great ambitions for the future. Becoming a well-known university in the world is one of them. Therefore the TU Delft should reconsider the impression that they carry out of the TU Delft Campus. My site is located in the center of the campus, where the 80 -meter-high faculty of EWI (electronis, math and...

Modeling Of Radiative Heat Transfer In Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells operate at high temperatures, which places stringent requirements on the ceramic materials in these devices. Optimizing the design by thermal stress minimization could increase the life expectancy of a fuel cell. In order to do this it is important to have a detailed understanding of the heat flows and temperature profiles...

Numerical modeling of sediment transport over hydraulic structures

Hydraulic structures are present in the designs of different Room for the River projects in the Netherlands. Examples are longitudinal weirs, groins, summer dikes and weirs in the inlet of a side channel. Morphological simulations with Delft3D are frequently carried out to investigate the effect of such projects on for example hindrance for...